Pleurotomella capricornea is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Raphitomidae.[1]
| Pleurotomella capricornea | |
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| Original image of a shell of Pleurotomella capricornea | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Raphitomidae |
| Genus: | Pleurotomella |
| Species: | P. capricornea
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| Binomial name | |
| Pleurotomella capricornea (Hedley, 1922)
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| Synonyms[1] | |
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Asperdaphne capricornea Hedley, 1922 (original combination) | |
Description
editThe length of the shell attains 4.5 mm, its diameter 2 mm.
(Original description) The small shell is lanceolate and contracted at the sutures. The substance is rather thin and translucent. Its colour is either white, buff, or pale pink above, afterwards turning to buff or white. The three whorls of the protoconch are always darker, usually brown buff. The shell contains 7½ whorls, including a protoconch of two whorls.
Sculpture : Fine spiral grooves, crossed by still finer radials, ornament the protoconch. The third whorl has a prominent keel on the shoulder, beneath which is a fainter spiral. On the fourth whorl the radials first appear as eight prominent round-backed ribs, crossed by two, afterwards three, spiral cords, forming deep meshes by their intersection. The ribs descend continuously and obliquely from whorl to whorl, but decrease in relative importance. The spirals multiply by intercalation till on the body whorl they amount to twenty-five, but there also they are insignificant compared to their initial stage. Two or three of the peripheral spirals project beyond the succeeding fasciole. The fasciole is distinct, crossed by sharp thread-like radials.
Aperture: The sinus is simple and rather shallow. The inner lip shows a slight callus. The siphonal canal is short and recurved.[2]
Location
editThis marine species is endemic to Australia and occurs off Queensland.
References
edit- ^ a b MolluscaBase (2019). Pleurotomella capricornea (Hedley, 1922). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=868147 on 2019-02-03
- ^ Hedley, C. 1922. A revision of the Australian Turridae. Records of the Australian Museum 13(6): 213-359, pls 42-56
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- Powell, A.W.B. 1966. The molluscan families Speightiidae and Turridae, an evaluation of the valid taxa, both Recent and fossil, with list of characteristic species. Bulletin of the Auckland Institute and Museum. Auckland, New Zealand 5: 1–184, pls 1–23
- Beu, A.G. 2011 Marine Molluscs of oxygen isotope stages of the last 2 million years in New Zealand. Part 4. Gastropoda (Ptenoglossa, Neogastropoda, Heterobranchia). Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand 41, 1–153
External links
edit- Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.682.1.1.